Stepping into 2015: What is the VISION

Stepping into 2015: What is the VISION

by | Jan 7, 2015 | Influence Factor

Transcend!The vision of 2015 was harder this year than it’s been in previous years. In a previous blog I shared with you that my husband and I do our vision board every year on New Year’s Eve. Typically, we bang it out and it’s very on point for both of us.

This year, I was restless, and nothing felt right.

Then, I realized that the vision I was creating is what I’m really living now. It wasn’t big enough, Bad-Assery enough!

I know, some of you are saying “but Ann, when is it enough?” I believe in our unlimited space and potential and that there is always more for us in the world. A greater depth of our purpose, a bigger meaning that we might not be living, and I always strive for that. I want to be better one year over the last.

True warriors get that.

So I stepped away from the vision board on New Year’s Eve. I reflected and journaled. And I thought on a bigger level and went back later on New Year’s Day.

What I realized is, it’s not what I am doing, it’s the expansiveness of how I can be doing it in 2015. It’s that next level of greatness for me my business, and my life. I realized it is time for me, a very visible person, to be more visible. To step into the larger stage, to open up with greater vulnerability and share with others from a loving position what I know. It is time for my husband and I to reach out to people who want amazing relationships and get real and raw with them, about what it takes to do it. It is time to stop letting the immense physical pain that I have every single day stop me from living a powerfully healthy lifestyle.

It is time for me to write and get out to the world what living the journey of a warrior is about, and how you transcend in your life. I am ready for the unlimited space and potential of 2015, are you?

Stepping into 2015: What is the VISION

Bringing in the NEW: Your tradition?

by | Dec 31, 2014 | Influence Factor

Celebration New Year’s Eve has actually become one of my most favorite holidays in my home! I’m no longer in my 20s so that whole going out and drinking at a party thing just doesn’t do it for me anymore!

Several years ago my husband and I started a tradition that I really look forward to. That night, okay really from afternoon through evening into the night, we truly spoil ourselves and work on our relationship.

Earl goes all around town and picks out amazing bottles of champagne. Yes the real stuff. If you follow us in social media you know we drink a lot of the fake stuff, LOL. This is true French Champagne from the region. That’s all we drink all night long. I’m responsible for the food and it’s decadent and indulgent! Typically, because it’s Dungeness crab season, I can find them fresh but we always have Dungeness crab and hopefully filet mignon as well.

In addition, one of the powerful things we do is build our vision board. Our vision board as a couple is hung on the wall right next to the front door. Anyone who comes into our home will see it.

We first each, individually, go through our own magazines and articles and pick out the words and pictures that represent what our personal goals and values are and our vision for what our relationship will look like for the next year. Then we come together and place them on the board. It is always amazing to me where we are 100% aligned and where each of us is bringing new ideas to the relationship.

Now my hope is to always make it to midnight for romantic kiss, what girl doesn’t want that, but with all the Champagne we’re drinking that doesn’t always happen!

How do you send off the old year and bring in the New Year in a powerful and compelling way for your family and business?

Being Compelling and Inspirational Means You Know How to Answer 1 Question!

Being Compelling and Inspirational Means You Know How to Answer 1 Question!

by | Dec 31, 2014 | Influence Factor, Speaking Strategy

I amWho am I. WHO am I. Who AM I.

No REALLY who are you? Who is the person that chooses to show up in the world? Are you the same person in public as in private? Do you even know how you want to be seen and heard? Remembered? Thought about?

Do you think about the energy it takes to transfer who you are? How about how it creates into what you do? If you say you are loving do they feel it? In your marketing, your words, your pictures and actions? Is it flat or alive, brimming with a rounded energy of love that they feel as you type? Is love “just being nice” or is there more to it, sometimes even tough love when needed?

Who are you?

How do you INTEND to show up in the world? Energetically how do you intend to show up? And do you know what that really FEELS like?

Brands have energy too – how does who you are show up in your brand? Is it authentic? Authentic means that if you say you are sassy – sassy is on the brand. Playful? Smart?

My favorite work is helping my MasterMind clients define what they look like energetically to the world- how they show up, and is it REALLY what they intend. It’s easy to say “I am compassionate” – it is harder to be sure that shows up in all your copy, your messaging, your writing, your marketing. When you understand this you move into having a compelling voice!

If you are starting this journey I would encourage you to take my Vision of Your Most Influential Self online course to get started. It will help you CHOOSE those words and deeply commit to them. I have set aside a few coupons to get the course for $37 almost 50% off! They are limited!

So this question is much, much deeper for the Warrior-Preneur on a journey to their success.